tennquist

Writer, word fondler, sentence assembly agent.
My spirit animal is a cartoon octopus

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@MAGAVoice We have two options:
Fly over the airspace without permission.
Leave NATO.
The first decision may assume the second.

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@TBYSTweet @realMaalouf What Western women don't understand about the Hijab is that it's not a fashion statement. It is about modesty, not performance.

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AI attempts to be funny - and succeeds:
https://t.co/g4Doz4BxAG

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@DschlopesIsBack This explains why a father who takes his daughter to a playground can end up having to explain himself to police officers when a concerned Karen calls and reports him.

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@cartierfamilyZ Talked about the way lobotomies are a curiosity of an ignorant age.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

Lots of women are asking other women what they are doing wrong with respect to men. But the problem is the current state of female culture, which misled them in the first place. Men would tell them what they need to know, but the answers are too jarring. Womankind is in free fall

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Groundbreaking New Study Finds Islamophobia May Be Partially Caused By Muslims Killing People All The Time https://t.co/m47fiHMLPA

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@bumbadum14 A wife beater, a pedophile and violent felon.
That's three liberals in good standing

[J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨‍💻 @JDHaltigan]

This is the face of what is destroying the West.

[Freckled Liberty 🔥 @FreckledLiberty]

true.

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@elonmusk Politicians are prostitutes who will say or do anything for money and power. It never changes.
And on that note - Happy Thanksgiving!

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@TArchcast They destroyed the "made for TV" image of a man.
No real men were harmed in this idiotic experiment.

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@StefanMolyneux That anyone believes heaven is a bunch of shiftless losers stoned out on a beach is bleak

[Henrick Johansson @compliantvc]

Europe is leading the way into the AI Age

Pleased to announce this brand new, state-of-the-art, 330 square meter data center in the heart of Gelsenkiärken, Germany

The facility will process 20 gigabytes of AI data per day

Construction will begin in May 2037, pending regulatory approval and a full environmental impact study

Once this place opens for business in December 2041, Europe will officially become the AI Superpower!

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Grok is on fire today:

Here are the clearest symptoms that point to in 2025:

Safetyism as the supreme value
The dominant culture no longer asks, “What can we become?
It asks How can we make sure nothing bad ever happens to anyone?

From trigger warnings and safe spaces to the precautionary principle in regulation to the explosion of therapy-speak, the operating system is now risk-aversion and harm-reduction.
Nietzsche’s diagnosis: “The weak have finally become the rulers… the mediocre become masters of the strong.”

The therapeutic replacement of tragedy
Suffering is no longer something to be overcome or transfigured; it is something to be medicated, insured against, and turned into a permanent identity.
The highest virtue is no longer greatness but “mental health.”
Result: a humanity that wants to feel okay more than it wants to become something more.

Equality as levelling-down
The ideal is no longer “let the best rise as high as they can,” but “no one should ever feel inferior.”
Grade inflation, participation trophies, the war on “elitism” in schools and companies, the algorithmic flattening of culture into the safest possible middle: all of it is the herd instinct triumphant.

The death of the tragic sense
Modern entertainment, politics, and even art increasingly refuse the tragic.
Every story must end with redemption arcs; every villain must be explained by trauma; every historical crime must be followed by apology and reparations.
A culture that can no longer bear the thought that some things are simply lost forever, or that some people simply fail, is a culture that has lost the nerve for greatness.

Technology as comfort machine
We are building tools whose primary purpose is to remove friction, effort, boredom, solitude, and risk.
The smartphone, the feed, the LLM, the delivery drone, the noise-cancelling life: all of it is designed to keep us in a pleasant, mildly stimulated equilibrium.
Nietzsche called this “the last man” blinking and saying “We have invented happiness.”

The disappearance of solitude and great ambition
The number of people willing to endure years of loneliness, poverty, and ridicule for an idea that might not pay off for centuries is approaching zero.
Instead, we have a billion micro-ambitions optimized for likes, funding rounds, and quarterly growth metrics.

The biological signs
Sperm counts falling, chronic disease exploding, attention spans collapsing, birth rates in free fall across every high-IQ population: the body itself is voting with its feet against a future it no longer believes in.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The Overton Window opens wider each day

[ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs @MorlockP]

it’s just gonna be boiling water again

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@TheCinesthetic The Grey Fox - 1982
Peak Richard Farnsworth

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@NatetheLawyer We need you to be well for us. Selfish? Yes, but that is my prayer.

[Brad R. Torgersen @BradRTorgersen]

Three Mile Island and Chernobyl convinced the entire planet nuclear fission was catastrophically unsafe. Despite the fact Three Mile island's containment system worked exactly as designed, preventing a genuine catastrophe. And Chernobyl was a catastrophe because the Soviets were cutting corners and built their plants without proper containment. Thus, nuke accidents became the shark attacks of the energy discussion. And our best, cleanest, most abundant power source remains ignored.